Managing Shared Drives; Monitoring Redundant Fibre Channel Fabrics - Compaq 112726-001 - ProLiant - 6500 Administrator's Manual

Managing Shared Drives

There are two levels of management with shared drives in RA4000 Arrays or
RA4100 Arrays. The physical disks and the drive arrays created from them are
managed with the Array Configuration Utility (ACU). The logical drives are
created and managed with the Disk Management utility.
The ACU is first run during initial configuration of the shared storage
subsystem and can be run any time afterward to view existing drive arrays,
modify existing drive arrays, or add new drive arrays. The ACU is available
on the SmartStart and Support Software CD, which is found in the Compaq
Server Setup and Management pack. For additional information about the
ACU, see the Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 User Guide or the
Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4100 User Guide.
Disk Management is first run after the drive arrays have been created by the
ACU. Disk Management is used to partition the drive arrays, create logical
drives, and assign volume labels. For additional information about Disk
Management, see your Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
documentation.

Monitoring Redundant Fibre Channel Fabrics

Each redundant Fibre Channel Fabric in a PDC/O2000 contains this hardware:
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One or more Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4100s (RA4100
Arrays) or Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000s (RA4000 Arrays)
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Two Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 Controllers (RA4000
Array Controllers) installed in each RA4000 Array or RA4100 Array
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At least two Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel SAN Switches
(Fibre Channel SAN Switches)
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At least two Compaq StorageWorks 64-bit/66-MHz Fibre Channel Host
Adapters or Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel Host Adapter/Ps
(Fibre Host Adapters) installed in each server
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Gigabit Interface Converter-Shortwave (GBIC-SW) modules
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Fibre Channel cables
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